The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are home to two of the most popular attractions found in our national parks. The giant sequoias have stood for thousands of years and many were around long before the United States was founded. The General Grant Tree and Kings Canyon are two examples of the beautiful scenery that has made our parks so appealing to visitors.

The General Grant Tree towers over 260 feet above the Grant Grove, the largest remaining natural Sequoia grove in the world. The circumference of its trunk at its widest is over 90 feet alone. The true size is difficult to imagine but, to put it in perspective, the General Grant Tree is a little shorter than the Statue of Liberty standing on her pedestal and the trunk is bigger than the Oval Office at the White House.

This two thousand year old Sequoia tree also has the designation of being the third largest Sequoia in the world, the second largest of all our national parks (the largest found also found in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park but not nearly as picturesque), and our nation’s Christmas Tree.

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